A Light Revealed in the Darkness

Imagine growing up and living your whole life in a desert. How incredible, how amazing, how impossible would a rainforest seem to you? Or, imagine living in the tundra, well north of the arctic circle, your whole life. How incredible, how amazing, how impossible would downtown Manhattan be? Imaging living your whole life in darkness, in the abyss, in the emptiness. How incredible, how amazing, how impossible would even the tiniest flickering light be? More

I wonder…

Listen to what Jesus has to say about children. This is from the tenth chapter of the Gospel according to Mark: “it is to [children] that the kingdom of God belongs. Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.” Whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it. What does it mean to “receive the kingdom of God as a little child”? And what does it mean that the kingdom of God belongs to children? And what does it mean that God approaches us as a child? More

Hurry Up & Wait!

Dec 09, 2018   ·     •   Luke 3:1-6

…I would always hurry down to the station. Now, nine times out of ten, not only was the train not early, it was late. Five, ten, fifteen, twenty minutes late. Those of you who ride Amtrak know that I’m not exaggerating (it’s not Amtrak’s fault, since freight trains get priority on rail lines, but it’s true nonetheless). So I would always hurry down to the station, but more often than not, I’d then have to wait for a late train.
I had to hurry up—and wait. More